"By now you've probably realized that you have a distinct choice to make: just let life happen, which is tantamount to serving God your leftovers, or actively running to Christ"
This whole chapter is about taking all these good feelings and ideas we've learned in previous chapters -AND ACTUALLY DOING SOMETHING WITH IT!!
Why do we need the guilt!?!? We've seen over and over how insanely crazy (in a good way) God's love is to us. And we've seen how insanely crazy our love should be in return. And that's always where it ends. A great idea, but I just don't put it into action. This is every Sunday, Wednesday, class, sermon, book I've ever had in my life. Great ideas that should spring us into action and yet...there I sit making no difference.
What is it that stops us? Fear? Worried about what others may think?
"Having faith often means doing what others see as crazy. Something is wrong when our lives make sense to unbelievers." (ouch)
Why are we so worried about what others think!?!? They SHOULD think we're crazy! Everything we believe in goes completely against EVERYTHING the world believes. It only makes sense that we would appear crazy to the world.
Look I am the king of "who cares what other people think about me". But when it comes to doing something crazy for God I become the king of "well...never mind...maybe next time"
I don't think my personal problem is fear of what others may think. My problem is just fear. I don't even have a comfort bubble I have a comfort universe. I'm good where I am let's not shake things up.
"Christians today like to play it safe. We want to put ourselves in situations where we are safe 'even if there is no God.' But if we truly desire to please God, we cannot live that way."
"But God doesn't call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn't come through"
I don't have a good answer, I don't even have a good excuse. Truly loving God the same way He loves me requires me to do crazy things. There is literally no excuse not to.
Isn't it amazing how you can read a verse a billion times and yet there is always something new to learn each and every time. How many times have we heard John 3:16. We've had to have picked that verse clean by now. Nothing new there. Wrong:
"One of the most memorized verses in the whole Bible says, For God so loved the world that he gave (John 3:16). Right there we see the connection between loving and giving evidently established."
What did God do when He loved - He gave. What should we do if we love - give.
I wish it didn't take guilt. I wish it didn't take conviction. I just wish I did it.
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